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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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What’s Missing from Your Ecosystem?

NetWits

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Think National Wildlife Federation. Think National Wildlife Federation. Tags: Marketing and Communication #nptech Non-Profit. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Citizen journalism.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ranger Rick, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation , has been banished from Facebook! Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Although it has its own blog, and most of the members are on Twitter and Facebook, all of the action takes place on Friendfeed. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s Los Alamos National Lab. Tags: Collaboration Environment Technology. He has told me that he?s

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s Los Alamos National Lab. Tags: Technology Environment Collaboration. He has told me that he?s